Some folks in parts of the world are very reliant on gasoline, while some are more dependent on electric. Petroleum based products however are still in absurd demand by almost all parties. How do you stand to fair if the oil situation continues to worsen? Plastics. Nylon. Jet fuel. Tires. Asphalt. To name just a few things that heavily rely on oil byproduct.
I like to eat food, so pretty dependent.
Even though my small regenerative farm doesn’t use much outside of a few tool parts, all food I can’t grow myself or find growing within my community is insanely dependent on petroleum products. Especially when it comes to local mom and pop restaurants (to say nothing of the chain restaurants and grocery stores.)
Yeah, food is still often shipped with petroleum based products even if they aren’t used in the product itself directly. I’m not even talking about the plastic in the boxes or bags as much as the tires on the trucks, the diesel in their tanks, the asphalt they drive on, as they criss-cross the country delivering food.
That and fertilizer. Big ag relies on the stuff.
Fertilizer is huge. Without it we would have hit peak population long ago, and the ripple effects of that would make it a different world.
I worked in ag for years. Its quite possibly the biggest difference. Remove ALL oil tomorrow and you will see a VAST population die-off. You can get around a lot of the issues but not at any sort of scale. And not all at once.
I hear that its the sudden stop that gets you.
I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to sell a truck with an engine that runs on coal.
Nah, the issue has always been logistics, not actual food scarcity.
You’re right in that resources in general not shared equally has always been a problem. That just changes the actual limit. There is a maximum we can hit, even in a perfect world.